ABSTRACT
The history of the Jesuit missions in Japan between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries has interested scholars for many decades, and there are now numerous monographs and editions of sources published on the subject, all the more so after the general turning point in recent historiography. In accompanying the Jesuit priests in their discovery of the Land of the Rising Sun, it was decided to favor some thematic axes, some problematic nodes, which better than others allow people to enter the imagination of men and women of the early modern age, and which more clearly restore the sense of the missionary adventure at that time of globalization occurring under the Iberian monarchies. Analyzing the Jesuit presence in the Land of the Rising Sun allows for the recognition of greater complexity in the problematic nature of their missionary identity. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
